Kochi children stand outside their settled area in the Sayad village area north of Kabul. The tribe is still traditionally nomadic; and within days will pack their belongings and travel a ten-day journey to Jalalabad as the weather begins to cool in the Kabul area.

Afghanistan

outside Kabul, Afghanistan

afghan girl.

Herat, Afghanistan

Self-immolation by women in Afghanistan. "Burning Ward" in Herat Public Hospital. Kerosene is used by primarily new wives in suicide attempts that is said to be on the rise in the western Afghan province.

A traumatized Lebanese family from the village of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon, takes advantage of a temporary halt in Israeli air strikes to flee. Aitaroun was the site of a weeklong siege of Hezbollah fighters by Israeli forces. Several families were trapped in their homes for several days while Israeli bombardment flattened many of the homes around them. At the time, this family feared leaving the father behind in the village, as there were only enough vehicles to evacuate women and children.

Tibnine, Lebanon

Evacuees from the border town of Bint Jbail, Lebanon, seek shelter in a hospital in Tibnine on Monday. Residents took advantage of Israel's announcement of a 48-hour suspension of aerial strikes to leave Bint Jbail, the scene of the war's bloodiest ground fight.

Aita Chab, Lebanon

Two girls walk through the ruins of Aita Chab, near the Lebanese-Israeli border. Unexploded ordnance litters much of the southern villages. Estimates range from tens to hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bomblets and submunitions. The BBC reports that the UN warns it may take two years to clear them. Out of the 18 killed and more than 80 injured in explosions since the end of the war a quarter were children.

Southern, Lebanon

A family flees southern Lebanon. A 48-hour cease fire of aerial bombardment by the Israeli military allowed some of the remaining residents to leave. Israel rejected the possibility of an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon as it poured soldiers and artillery shells across the border, vowing to press ahead with its ground war before diplomacy forces it to stop.

Qana, Lebanon

Mourners grieve during a mass funeral service in Qana, southern Lebanon, August 18, 2006. Many of those buried Friday were killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 30th which killed approximately 20 children. The mass burial did not happen immediately according to Islamic tradition due to the ongoing airstrikes.

Qana, Lebanon

Mourners grieve during a mass funeral service in Qana, southern Lebanon, August 18, 2006. Many of those buried Friday were killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 30th which killed approximately 20 children. The mass burial did not happen immediately according to Islamic tradition due to the ongoing airstrikes.

Qana, Lebanon

Mourners grieve during a mass funeral service in Qana, southern Lebanon, August 18, 2006. Many of those buried Friday were killed in an Israeli airstrike on July 30th which killed approximately 20 children. The mass burial did not happen immediately according to Islamic tradition due to the ongoing airstrikes.

Aitaroun, Lebanon

Residents wait to flee from the village of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon, taking advantage of a temporary halt in Israeli air strikes, August 1, 2006. Aitaroun was the site of a weeklong siege of Hezbollah fighters by Israeli forces. Several families were trapped in their homes for several days while Israeli bombardment flattened many of the homes around them.

Tyre, Lebanon

Jinan, a Lebanese translator from the Bekaa Valley, east of Beirut, which was severely damaged by Israeli bombardment, prepares her make-up in her hotel room in the port city of Tyre, Lebanon. Predominantly Lebanese Shia, the Bekaa is known for its strong presence of Hezbollah.

Tebnine, Lebanon

Evacuees from Aitaroun, southern Lebanon, sit in a van - some reading Quran - outside what became an emergency shelter at the hospital in nearby Tebnine. Tebnine became a transitional village for those fleeing the southern villages, making their way north to Tyre and Beirut.

Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi humor, "the car is not for sale."

Baghdad, Iraq

Iraq family. The garden is the only place to go.

Baghdad, Iraq

Aftermath of an Improvised Explosive Device. Through shattered glass, they watch Iraqi police gather their dead and argue over whose fault it is.

Baghdad, Iraq

Aftermath of an Improvised Explosive Device.

Baghdad, Iraq

Sadr City, Iraq

Rena (left) and one of her sisters. In 2008, Rena was 9 months pregnant while walking with her youngest sister when a U.S. aerial strike over Sadr City tore her leg off, and killed her unborn infant and sister.

Baghdad, Iraq

Sadr City, Iraq

Rena (left) and her one of her sisters.

Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq

A good-bye lunch for the sons of one family, March 2006. Due to security threats in their neighbourhood, the young men were being sent to live with relatives in another district of Baghdad.

Damascus, Syria

Damascus, Syria

Iraqis line up for free food during a religious holiday in Seyeda Zainab.

Damascus, Syria

Waiting to live. The Kudsiya district of Damascus, where middle class Iraqi refugees flee to.

Sayeda Zainab, Iraq

An Iraqi ghetto, with an estimated 300,000 Iraqi refugees. Bariq arrived in 2006 after being released from a kidnapping where he was held -and beaten- for three months. He fled to Syria on a quickly forged Iraqi passport.

Iraq

Critics of the apathy towards the crisis fear what will become of the young Iraqi generation who continue to live as refugees without jobs and without furthering education.

Iraq

A mother of four who has turned to prostitution. In her late 30's, she fled Baghdad after her husband was killed in an explosion.